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Music, media, and thought from the Ink 19 editorial team

Borsalino

Borsalino

Screen Reviews

Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).

The Residents Visual History Book

The Residents Visual History Book

Print Reviews

Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.

Weird Science

Weird Science

Screen Reviews

Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.

City of the Living Dead

City of the Living Dead

Screen Reviews

Cauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.

Broken Mirrors

Broken Mirrors

Screen Reviews

Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.

Pixies and Modest Mouse

Pixies and Modest Mouse

Event Reviews

Pixies: Kid Tested, Mother Approved. Saturday night in Vail, Liz and Jackie Weiss were just a couple of cool kids on a pretty sweet road trip that ended up at Frank Black’s feet.

We Can Be The New Wind

We Can Be The New Wind

Print Reviews

Superfan Alexandros Anesiadis writes the encyclopedia of post-hardcore, melodic punk from around the world, We Can Be The New Wind. Bob Pomeroy reviews.

Short Skirts and Whiskey Shots

Short Skirts and Whiskey Shots

Print Reviews

Author Andrea Janov shares memories of living in the New York City fast lane in the early 2000s with Short Skirts and Whiskey Shots: Tales of Nights I Shouldn’t Have Made it Home Alive. Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Candlebox

Candlebox

Event Reviews

Candlebox headlines their The Long Goodbye tour as they release their eighth, and final, studio album.

Kris Davis

Kris Davis

Music Reviews

Diatom Ribbons: Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

mssv

mssv

Music Reviews

Human Reaction (Big Ego Records). Review by Steven Garnett.

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Swans

Event Reviews

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Eclipse 2024

Features

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Sun Ra

Sun Ra

Music Reviews

At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976/1977 (Jazz Detective). Review by Bob Pomeroy.